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Melvin C. Terrell Scholars Dive into Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I had no idea how to do research,” she said. Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I It’s not my strong suit.”

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. Photo by Robert Lathrop.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Given my research background, I cannot claim authority in teaching and pedagogy research. Courses bound into teacher preparation programs offer opportunities to connect students’ academic lives to their growing professional identities as educators and are a necessary component of MSI pedagogy (Ostorga, Zúñiga, & Hinton, 2020).

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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

Confessions of a Community College Dean

One co-written study published in the Journal of Moral Education found that students in a Wake Forest course called Commencing Character demonstrated growth in seven targeted virtues and several nontargeted virtues, compared to a control group.

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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Some of the students also attend staff talks on educational topics, which they find helpful for their own teaching. Staff and student teachers from the 2018 cohort receiving recognition for their commitment to learning and teaching at the vet school.

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Geoscience Outreach: What we do, how we assess, and client/student reflections

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Image of OEGlobal award screenshot: [link] Here are a few examples: Prior to the pandemic, one of our psychology students developed a Mental Health & Wellbeing Booklet , a collection of strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing for age 12+. A recently graduated ecology student had a passion for insects.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. In many cases, partners jointly completed a project that benefitted both institutions.